PC or PS2 in DVD case?

Thornwillow · Post by **Thornwillow** » Sat May 21, 2005 5:01 pm

In a slim DVD case, would it be possible to replace it with PC parts, or PS2 parts?

peppers · Post by **peppers** » Sat May 21, 2005 5:05 pm

yes it would take 2 things into condideraton

will this stuff fit inside?
is there enoth airflow to keep it cool?

Post by **bicostp** » Sat May 21, 2005 5:06 pm

WTF?

A slim DVD case? as in the plastic case you store the disc in?

What are you talking about?

Thornwillow · Post by **Thornwillow** » Sat May 21, 2005 5:12 pm

I mean the shell, the plastic part...

peppers · Post by **peppers** » Sat May 21, 2005 5:30 pm

he means take a dvd player out of its case the put the outher stuff in as I suspect you knew before you asked but you want to be difficult

Post by **bicostp** » Sat May 21, 2005 5:46 pm

No, I was honestly confused. (Sometimes I take things too literally.)

He never said it was a "slim dvd player" case, just a "slim dvd" case, which I associate to the 1/2 width DVD cases that come in multi-disc sets. Sorry.

*o* · Post by ***o*** » Sat May 21, 2005 6:03 pm

i think it would work with the new ps2 but you couldnt use the drive

Thornwillow · Post by **Thornwillow** » Sat May 21, 2005 6:25 pm

Its not that slim, its just a compact DVD player, but i think it would work...

*o* · Post by ***o*** » Sat May 21, 2005 6:31 pm

a pc with a mini itx board mini hard disc and laptop drive

tom61 · Post by **tom61** » Sat May 21, 2005 7:06 pm

bicostp wrote:No, I was honestly confused. (Sometimes I take things too literally.)

He never said it was a "slim dvd player" case, just a "slim dvd" case, which I associate to the 1/2 width DVD cases that come in multi-disc sets. Sorry.

I was thinking the same thing. Though, I have more of an excuse to think that, as I was thinking of cramming an embedded board in about 3 or 5 hollowed out DVD video cases from Block Buster (they remove DVDs from normal cases to put in thier special ones, and give away the normal ones) and printing out DVD covers, and then run it as a small server.

As far as cramming PC in a DVD player, it should be no trouble. You might even get lucky and the DVD drive is IDE, so you can just use that for your optical drive. (most Apex players use IDE drives)

Great, now I'm thinking about the DVD box server, again... I need to find an interesting use for a server with about 32MB of storage and one 10Mbit ethernet port.

Post by **bicostp** » Sat May 21, 2005 7:09 pm

tom61 wrote:...(they remove DVDs from normal cases to put in thier special ones, and give away the normal ones)...

Sweet! Now all I have access to the stuff I need to replace a couple broken DVD cases!

(or a cubicle around my desk if I can find a line on some cheap Krazy Glue.

)

Goodwin · Post by **Goodwin** » Thu May 26, 2005 2:21 am

Im in the process of putting my xbox into a VCR case, but building a PC dvd bezel into the front to allow the drive to eject nice (or just use the VCR flat).

Im building into the front a Hip Gear screen and pushing in as much air as possible, probably going to build my wireless control pad senders in the case too.

I started a DVD case project before but screwed up the moving of the front panel as the DVD drive would have sat direct ontop of the xbox GPU if the position wasnt moved.

When the project is moving I will get some pics up.

*o* · Post by ***o*** » Thu May 26, 2005 2:29 am

that will be SO cool when it is done

tom61 · Post by **tom61** » Thu May 26, 2005 2:45 pm

Ah, this thread probably is how the idea to put an X-Box in my old AD-500W got stuck in my head. I probably won't do it, unless a friend of a friend decides to give away his not working X-Box. No idea what is wrong with it, but if it isn't the motherboard that is bad, I could mod it to at least a semi-functional state.

Goodwin · Post by **Goodwin** » Fri May 27, 2005 2:23 am

I made some progress last night, I mounted the DVD drive which ejects through the gap where the tape used to go, but its just an open gap at the moment

I have also mounted the HD which is just screwed to the side of the plastic case with 2 screws, may need more support when its spinning so may need to make a plexi stand or something.

Also... I took apart an old PC case I got given as it had a LCD inside which displayed the temps, this is going to go where the old VCR display screen was.

Just have to be paitent now for the screen off ninjai, he has sold me one and I Paypal'ed the money the other day but I have plenty of other things to move on with.

Will get some pics up soon.